In a scene reminiscent of the turbulent 1960’s, a black student group at the University of California Santa Cruz successfully occupied the main campus building until its demands were met by the school administration.
The African/Black Student Alliance updated its approach, calling the building takeover a “reclamation,” and issuing demands for immediate response while threatening additional demands.
For three days the group occupied Kerr Hall until Chancellor George Blumenthal agreed to their demands. As a result, all black and Caribbean-identified students now have a four-year housing guarantee to live in the Rosa Parks African American Themed House. The building’s lounge will be reopened, the exterior will be painted in “Pan-Afrikan” colors of red, green and black, and all UC Santa Cruz incoming students will be forced to undergo mandatory diversity competency training.
Find out what further demands the group has and the university’s rationale for giving in on the next page.
Fine. Shut off power, water and computer access! Turn the dogs and Swat Teams loose!
Black studies? How is that going to help get a job?
Administration should have expelled everyone of them, and called the police to forcibly remove them from campus for trespassing
Spineless administrators.
This trash needs to be jailed!
The backwards thinking that Obama and his administration pushed into the American public eye was divisive and helped America regress to pre-civil right levels of hatred between groups. Not only that, but he never thought of the greater picture. He always sought the short-term answer.
I demand these low life losers get s damn job and quit being such cry babies. They offend the hell out of me
Kick there$#%&!@*out of school
These spoiled brats need taught a lesson. Adults be adults act like adults. If you let them have control it won’t stop at this watch and see there demands will get bigger. They get greedy because you idiots gave in.
Can’t they be arrested for extortion?